NEW DELHI: As the Centre justified on Wednesday the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk by pointing out his alleged inflammatory speeches and the use of Gandhian principles as a facade, Supreme Court said that it was reading too much into his statements.Solicitor general Tushar Mehta told the court that the govt won’t review Wangchuk’s…
‘Must be universal’, P 5 Artificial intelligence has an exciting role to play in fields like drug discovery, scientific progress and disease treatment. But given the pace at which it is evolving, there is a real prospect of AI becoming more powerful than its creator, warns Tim Berners-Lee, British computer scientist and inventor of the…
NEW DELHI: Over 10 central trade unions called for a nationwide Bharat Bandh on Thursday against the government’s “anti-worker” policies. The bandh was supported by farmer organisations and other groups across sectors.The strike call was announced as a mark of “resistance to anti-worker, anti-farmer and anti-national pro-corporate policies of the central government.”Trade unions said nearly…
NEW DELHI: Arguments on sentencing of Kashmiri separatist Aasiya Andrabi and her two associates, convicted last month under UAPA for conspiring to wage war against India and for membership of a terrorist outfit, could not begin on Wednesday as the question of jurisdiction has not yet been decided. Andrabi, founder of women separatist organisation Dukhtaraan-e-Millat,…
NEW DELHI: Amid mounting unease of SC over the practice of judges inordinately delaying pronouncing verdicts reserved by them, a two-judge bench of apex court has set Thursday as the day to deliver a verdict it reserved a year and two months ago.SC had recently criticised HC judges who reserve verdict and forget to pronounce…
NEW DELHI: District-wise data of deletions made in the final electoral roll of Assam published on Tuesday, show a decline in the electorate of 25 of the state’s 35 districts as compared to the draft roll.While Cachar district witnessed the maximum decline of electors in absolute terms, with a total 33,536 shaved off the draft…
NEW DELHI: Union petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said during the eight years he spent in the US, he met convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “only three to four times” as a private citizen, as part of a delegation of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism he was associated with after his retirement…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin Wednesday ruled out the possibility of a coalition govt in the state, a suggestion being voiced by Congress netas ahead of the upcoming assembly polls.“Sharing power will not suit Tamil Nadu,” the CM said at a session organised by a media house in Chennai. “Both Congress and DMK…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police‘s preliminary investigation into the alleged leak of a pre-print copy of ‘Four Stars of Destiny’, the unpublished memoir of former Army chief Gen MM Naravane (retd), suggests it was not the handiwork of a suspected whistleblower but a coordinated effort to bypass clearance by the ministry of defence, an official said…
NEW DELHI: South Block, home to all major decisions in govt for over five decades, will see PMO move out of the British-era building on Friday afternoon and shift to the newly constructed Seva Teerth. PM Narendra Modi will chair the last Cabinet meeting in South Block on that day before the inauguration of the…